The OpenAPI Components object enables the centralization of common technical details within an API, promoting modularity and reusability. Using the components object as a standard practice helps reduce confusion, simplifies governance, and ensures consistency in the technical details across APIs.
OpenAPI Components
Rules
APIs.json Common Info
An APIs.json artifact can include a set of common properties that describe aspects of API operations shared across multiple APIs in a collection. These common properties are typically managed by a ...
OpenAPI Components Parameters Error
Having a components parameters object allows all parameters used across an API to be centralized, allowing for reuse and easier governance of the parameters used to configure API requests
OpenAPI Components Parameters Info
Having a components parameters object allows all parameters used across an API to be centralized, allowing for reuse and easier governance of the parameters used to configure API requests
OpenAPI Components Examples Error
Utilizing an example object in the centralized OpenAPI components library helps make examples reusable across API requests and responses
OpenAPI Components Examples Info
Utilizing an example object in the centralized OpenAPI components library helps make examples reusable across API requests and responses
OpenAPI Components Schemas Error
Utilizing the schema object in the centralized OpenAPI components library helps make schema reusable across API requests and responses
OpenAPI Components Schemas Info
Utilizing the schema object in the centralized OpenAPI components library helps make schema reusable across API requests and responses
OpenAPI Components Headers Error
Utilizing the headers object in the centralized OpenAPI components library helps make headers reusable across API requests and responses
OpenAPI Components Headers Info
Utilizing the headers object in the centralized OpenAPI components library helps make headers reusable across API requests and responses
Strategies
APIs Must Reusable Whenever Possible
The components of any API should be made modular and reusable whenever it makes sense to the business use case, keeping schema, parameters, examples, error responses, and other common parts of an A...
Lifecycle
design_services Design Design
Design is where the human experience of an API is won or lost. I work design-first, shaping the paths, schema, errors, and naming in the contract before development begins, so that consistency is b...
